Lippmann plate

Lippmann plate

The Lippmann plate was an early form of colour photography developed in 1891 by Gabriel Lippmann, a physicist. Lippmann won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1908 for its development.

A glass plate is coated with transparent and grainless silver emulsion. It is the uncoated side which is exposed to the light with the emulsion in contact with a reflecting surface such as mercury. The incident light is reflected back on itself causing interference. This establishes standing waves in the emulsion at half the wavelength of the incident light which react with the photosensitive emulsion. The plate is then processed so that the recording becomes changes in the index of refraction of the gelatin. These changes of index of refraction reflect the light by a process called Bragg diffraction.

The colour image can only be viewed in the reflection of a diffuse light source from the plate, making the field of view limited, and it cannot be copied. The technique was very insensitive with the emulsions of the time and it never came into general use.

Lippmann photographic techniques are being developed to produce images which can easily be viewed, but not copied, for security purposes. [ [http://www.holographyforum.org/HoloWiki/index.php/Lippmann_Security Main Page - HoloWiki - A Holography FAQ ] ]

References

* [http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/articles/biedermann/index.html Article about Lippmann Photography on the Nobel Prize website]
* [http://www.holowiki.com/index.php/Lippmann_Photography Lippmann Wiki for experimenters]
* [http://holographyforum.org/phpBB2/viewforum.php?f=14 Forum for the Lippmann Process]


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